Recall that there is good evidence that the speed of light itself is SLOWING. Yet another area of research where creationists are ahead!! (Barry Setterfield is one of the primary researchers in this area; he is a creationist.)
Fellow believers, in several areas of study we have been many years ahead of evolutionists on multiple occasions! They are mentally hobbled by their backwards theory.
The speed of light is not a constant! That is nonsense. It used to be believed; but the weight of good scientific research shows otherwise. The evolutionists and their hiding-from-God beliefs are holding us back - AGAIN!
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ROFLMAO.. this part here exploded my irony meter.
"hey are mentally hobbled by their backwards theory."
Ummm wouldn't the more accurate definition of a "backwards theory".. at least in this respect be.. "goddidit... and now excuse me while I go find bits and pieces of 'evidence', using pseudo-science to try and prove it."? I think it would.
Light does slow down when it's passing through something other than a vacuum.
But through that vacuum, it is a constant. So it would have no difficulty traversing the inside of your skull at top speed.
"Fellow believers, in several areas of study we have been many years ahead of evolutionists on multiple occasions! They are mentally hobbled by their backwards theory."
"...And their stupid requirement that they have evidence to back up what they propose. Take heart, fellow creationists, by making shit up out of nothing we emulate God's very act of creation itself, and if we continue to do so at our current rate we may again be 'right' one time in 10 thousand!"
(Or at least, right up until anybody bothers to check.)
If there was good evidence, then it would be published in science journals.
Creationists are ahead of scientists in many imaginary ways.
Barry Setterfield has even been dismissed by other creationists such as Answers in Genesis.
This is an old fundie claim, it never had any evidence to support it, its been debunked over and over, let's move on kids.
We can add this to the geocentric theory, the flat earth theory, the demons cause burps theory, all of which demonstrate the superiority of bronze age myth over modern science.
Goosey:
The speed of light changing is an attempt to deal with the fact that we can see galaxies billions of light years away. If the universe is only 6000 years old how is that possible? One answer is that the speed of light was millions of times faster before Eve ate the apple, then slowed to it's present speed afterwards, thus delivering light from far far away to our doorstep in a few thousand years. This scenario is used when dismissing the evolutionist claim that galaxies are billions of light years away and claiming god created light in transit 6000 years ago don't fool the marks.
I was looking at the hilarious piece of "knee-mail" when I noticed it has Hovind's address at the bottom. We should send him some reading material for his time in the pokey. I think I'll start him off with Mark Knoll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind , which states that the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is no evangelical mind.
What else should we send him?
Barry Setterfield is one of the primary researchers in this area
Barry Setterfield is the only "researcher".
It used to be believed; but the weight of good scientific research shows otherwise.
He has a strange definition of "weight". There was no "research". One crackpot compared modern measurements to 300 year old measurements.
"Recall that there is good evidence that the speed of light itself is SLOWING."
No, there isn't. Not one shred.
"Yet another area of research where creationists are ahead!! (Barry Setterfield is one of the primary researchers in this area; he is a creationist.)"
Keep telling yourself that. Believing it won't make it true.
"Fellow believers, in several areas of study we have been many years ahead of evolutionists on multiple occasions!"
Oh, really? Name one example.
"They are mentally hobbled by their backwards theory."
I see you're projecting.
"The speed of light is not a constant! That is nonsense. It used to be believed; but the weight of good scientific research shows otherwise."
No, the only thing that CLAIMS otherwise is a bunch of pseudoscientific nonsense.
"The evolutionists and their hiding-from-God beliefs are holding us back - AGAIN!"
Again with the evolution=god-denial fallacy. Not to mention the complete denial of everything evolutionary science has done for us - vaccines, medicines, gene therapy, and so on.
Oh, wait, I forgot... medical science is "witchcraft" to these morons.
Also: good link, David B.
Hi... I'm not defending this post, but just for everyone's information, there is a lot of interest in mainstream particle physics about what the implications would be if the speed of light were changing. In particular, some measurements of the fine structure constant, which depends on the speed of light, indicated that the speed of light may have changed over the history of the universe. Newer, more sensitive measurements contradict these results and the current consensus seems to be that the speed of light is constant. But, there are respected scientists asking the question, "what if its not?" Check out wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light ) for more info.
They jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. In an attempt to discredit radiometric dating by suggesting light speeds (and therefore radioactive decay) were faster in the past, they've created a problem with the astronomical data from the SN1987a supernova (a decelerating speed of light would make the supernova even older). Typical fundie - fire a shotgun at opposing evidence without checking to see if one of their crackpot theories is negating another.
Actually, the famous E=MC^2 requires the speed of light ("C") to be a constant. So unless Einstein was wrong, and a whole bunch of Japanese people just up and disappeared in the summer of 1945, I'm going to bet you are, just a tad, bat shit insane.
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Yeah, I actually came across that too - didn't realise it was tied to the fine structure constant changing, saw that mentioned in a few papers on atomic clocks.
Still, almost certainly not creationist scientists that are involved with the real research on this one.
Look PA, I understand that you are trying to achieve the level of lying set by your federally convicted leader, but let's face it, you guys simply aren't up to snuff. Nobody except a total idiot(like a CSE follower) is gonna believe this nonsense is scientific fact. You couldn't sell this tripe to a sixth-grader.
Oh, it's from the Hovind blog. Enough said.
Hovind has been peddling arse-about-face speudoscientific bullshit for so long he wouldn't know reality if it backed an M1A2 Abrams main battle tank into his ribcage.
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"Actually, the famous E=MC^2 requires the speed of light ("C") to be a constant. So unless Einstein was wrong, and a whole bunch of Japanese people just up and disappeared in the summer of 1945, I'm going to bet you are, just a tad, bat shit insane."
there was no bomb,they got caught up in the rapture and the evil illuminati masonic evolutionistic communist atheists just knocked down a bunch of buildings as a coverup,same thing with the jews and the holocaust
The speed of light is not a constant!
Yes it is. Observations of stars such as SN1987A confirm this.
You are a general failure.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore, (F)ail?
Goosey:
But in the fundie mind, evolution, cosmology, astronomy, paleontology, genetics and arithmetic are all the same thing.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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